Yahoo Error 999
Same Error, Different Search Engine
There’s something scary about enountering a number 999 Yahoo error message. The error looks a lot like the Google Error that has been the subject of much discussion here. The error is reported to occur when automated software programs scrape search engine results. I encountered the error when doing a Yahoo search in Internet Explorer. Others report encountering it while using other Yahoo products. I looked through Yahoo’s Search Content Quality Guidelines and didn’t find any language forbidding the use of automated rank checker software programs. I’m sure Yahoo doesn’t like it. Google doesn’t.
The full text of the Yahoo error reads:
Unable to process request at this time — error 999
Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.Unfortunately we are unable to process your request at this time. This error is usually temporary. Please try again later.
If you continue to experience this error, it may be caused by one of the following:
- You may want to scan your system for spyware and viruses, as they may interfere with your ability to connect to Yahoo!. For detailed information on spyware and virus protection, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center.
- This problem may be due to unusual network activity coming from your Internet Service Provider. We recommend that you report this problem to them.
While this error is usually temporary, if it continues and the above solutions don’t resolve your problem, please let us know.
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Please try Yahoo! Help Central if you need more assistance.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
error 999… how can this be fixed? i already called my isp and they refer me to yahoo. cant contact yahoo tech support. i already did check and scan your system for spyware and viruses. i even optimized browser but then again error 999 keeps on coming up.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
bequi, usually the yahoo error comes and goes. I’ve only seen it twice. I think usually it is more related to Yahoo suspecting that they are receiving too many automated queries from one IP address.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
have this problem with hughes.net I know, but no other option available where I am. using youhide.com works for yahoo search, anonymizer might work also. Free proxy server.com?
February 7th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I used “shove it” to get into the yahoo games and the error 999 came up. Would doing that cause this error to happen?
February 12th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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Hello
When error 999 occurs:
-click the ‘back’ button to return to the link or object
-press and hold ‘CTRL’ on the keyboard
-click the link or object
A Yahoo! login prompt will appear and 999 will not recurr in the session.
Best wishes,
pup
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February 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Thanks cj, worked for me you’re great!
February 26th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Hi this type of error is common as me to faced the same error yesterday while i was searching in yahoo. Thanks CJ for giving the guidance as i will try it when facing the problem again.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Basically yahoo 999 error occurs for every 28 to 33 searches in the browser it takes 30 minutes to recover from that error other wise we have an tool known as Tor which is free online with that we can show our IP address change to yahoo server by this the problem can be solved.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Hi!
HELP!! I’m using xB Browser-formally known as “TORPark” I received the yahoo 999 error a few times while trying to login into my Yahoo email account. I tried the suggestion in an earlier answer to the yahoo error 999 below.
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When error 999 occurs:
-click the ‘back’ button to return to the link or object
-press and hold ‘CTRL’ on the keyboard
-click the link or object
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After doing the first part I get back to the Yahoo mail username/p&w login screen. Then after entering my username & p/w and holding down the “CTRL” key I click on “Sign In”. It
then takes me to the same yahoo mail sign in screen with my username showing this time, but it asks me to confirm my p/w. After entering my p/w and clicking on “sign in”, it keeps looping back to the same confirm p/w screen over and over again. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
April 20th, 2008 at 7:40 am
yahoo 999 error.
I can get into my email, but not Calendar or Notes…..
May 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Hi Hate this error! it is the most annoying thing, it forces me no to want to use the yahoo search box ever!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
argh! i just got the 999 error for yahoo answers ~.~
June 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Hi , i’m facing a hell of a problem my yahoo messenger doesn’t work when I enter the password and athe user name, although all the other chatting programs are working and keeps giving me error number 800 and some other numbers, for the yahoo mail I have the 999 error. Tell me what can i do.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I don’t know the answer, needloveallthetime, but here are a few options for seeking help:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/contactus/contactus-01.html
http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/yahoo-messenger-support/
July 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Renew your ip adress ,this will resolve errror 999
willy
September 18th, 2008 at 2:05 am
I don’t use any other Yahoo programs, so I don’t know about all that, but I get this error frequently while trying to enter Yahoo chat because of the captchat crap they’ve got going on. If a room is full and I have to keep trying over and over, I know it’s using more bandwith, but it’s ridiculous. Is there anyway to get around the captchat to avoid the bandwith usage, or maybe another way around it? The error has been popping up for over an hour now, and I’m going insane. Not even that I want to chat anymore, simply that I want to make the d*mn thing work.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:19 am
i can’t sign in into my yahoo messenger..the error 999 appear.. what can i do? please somebody help me..
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
TRY CLEANING YOUR COOKIES AND CACHE FILES GOO PROGRAM TO USE IS CCLEANER CAN BE DOWNLOADED AND RUN FOR FREE WORKED FOR ME:)
January 21st, 2009 at 8:17 am
I have experienced this 999 four days in a row- while using the library”s computer- I have said something to the administrators but they have done nothing about it- Its frustrating having to wait several hours to access my email while waiting on Yahoo to fix the problem
January 31st, 2009 at 10:44 am
plz help me.i can’t use the chat room :(
February 5th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I got it using yahoo answers. i tried the control thing- didn’t work. i tried logging off and closing down my internet and logging back on- didn’t work. i changed my ip address- didn’t work. i switched browsers- didn’t work. i didn’t even use the stupid yahoo search or email or groups or chat or games. i signed on just to ask a question and when i did, i got the f-*** error code. it makes no sense! screw yahoo. i’m going somewhere else.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I was answering questions in Yahoo answers and adding as a source my URL. after about 30 answers with the URL we received error 999, after much searching we found out that if we back paged and took out our URL and resubmitted the answer we did not get the error. So there seems to be a limit on how many times you post your URL in your answers. There was no advertisement on this URL. No profit making.
February 26th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Several times A day I was getting Error Code 999 on Yahoo Mail every 4 E-Mails I read.
March 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
hi i am trying from few days on yahoo mail i am not abele to send any mail when i open my mail showing error999
March 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
the error problem make me mad all the time,,,, i realy cant do any thing to avoud this trouble
pls inform me whats i have to do??
March 21st, 2009 at 6:21 am
Hi,
During this error try to switch yahoo classic mail.
This error mainly due to server bandwidth
March 21st, 2009 at 6:24 am
I have tried by using Yahoo classic mail instead of ALL new mail during this error,it worked out well.
If you have still problem let me know.
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Hello, I am getting the 999 error, I was deleting my emails from about a year ago…called yahoo and they said email the tech online did that. called my ISP they helped and said you would need to wait 2 to 24 hours until it would open again….it has something to do with bandwidth or over usage…does anyone else know what to do??. She told me to go to hotmail or something else they do not have any “caps” on there accounts!…Please let me know, you can email me at: jchcoins@yahoo.com.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:02 am
i got this d*** error when i was trying to use their RSS news feed for my site… looks like i’ll have to go back to topix.com i was all excited about using yahoo… i hope they do something about this bs.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:52 am
thanks shahul, your advise worked with my mail.. i jst switched to classic mail, then its ok now..
thanks again…ur great! mwuahh…
March 26th, 2009 at 5:58 am
HEY GUYS, I THINK YOU SHOULD APPLY TOO, AS WHAT SHAHUL SAID… JUST SWITCH TO CLASSIC MAIL AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE THOSE VERY DISGUSTING ERROR 999.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
error 999 . . wat a nitemare . . switch 2 classic mail and it should solve your problem. . it did for me
April 7th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I feel a lot better now that I know other people using “Yahoo Mail” are suffering too!….Not because “misery loves company”….but; I thought I was the only person doing something wrong. This problem has cost me hours of work time….and I’m supposed to meet clients later…that
mentioned on a phone message that they left me a “Detailed
Email Message. I can not retrieve this…..For God’s Sake,
“If you are a “Competing email Provider”, FIX IT! NOW!!!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
try unplugging your internet cable from computer and wait 5 minutes, this would automatically give you new IP address.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I was deleting some old e-mails and suddenly “error 999″ appeared… I just want to ask if it is something temporary, as Yahoo! says. Does it work properly after a period of time? How long does it usually take? Hope I haven’t lost my address…Thank you, thank you!
May 19th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Another sufferer! I lost a whole long email I’d nearly finished to France yesterday - cost me over an hour. I’ll try the solutions, but my mate says, “Leave Yahoo”. What a good idea!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:00 am
My husband is getting the Error 999 message on his Yahoo mail account as well and as his tech support wife, I am left to figure it out and fix it for him. Who is the enabler here?
Anyway, changing accounts is very tempting, but I don’t wish to hear him complain that he has a new address to share with everyone AND later when he has other problems that he thought it was FIXED! Surely you all realize that any tech site has problems from time to time and it’s up to YOU to figure it out and fix it! It’s not like buying a Chevy or Ford and driving it 75,000 miles then turning it in for a new one. It’s like buying a Chevy or Ford, driving it 3000 miles then having to take it in for an oil change or some other maintainance! It isn’t fool-proof til death….til death do us part? Nope! Doesn’t work that way! These are machines and machines break down or get fowled and need adjustments.
I know this isn’t very helpful, but it’s where I am right now and his machine sits on the other side of the room running a virus scan. I will then degrag and clean it hoping that gets him into yahoo mail long enough to clean out his 1300+ old messages sitting on the inbox. Could THAT have anything to do with the problem? Hmmmmm????
June 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I apologize for the unhelpful diatribe! I have to rant now and then to bring my blood pressure down. If I figure anything out about this 999 error, I’ll share it here.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Scan completed and now he’s into yahoo mail successfully. Not sure what’s changed, but I’ll tell him he needs to reduce the number of messages in the inbox. That would be a good start!
June 20th, 2009 at 8:56 am
guyz.. there is no solution with your problems…. its the internet (cyberworld) itself.
many sites are now cloning your ip address or either mac address….
if they do this…
your proxy will be blocked and will ban you in a site for a anti-spamming reasons…
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
what will happen? everytime im going to chat room, allways came out the 999 error. how can i fix it? then if im going to chat room, never came out again the 999 error. thanks and more power.